Since I just didn’t get enough this morning, I spent some more time fooling around with estimating pi. Since I was basically counting the number of random x,y pairs inside a quarter circle and computing a sample average for more … Continue reading →

Let me get this out of the way: I just love RStudio.Created by a team lead by JJ Allaire, a name that should ring a bell if you were involved in web development during the Clinton administration, RStudio is an R IDE that is actually designed for R from...

Let me get this out of the way: I just love RStudio.Created by a team lead by JJ Allaire, a name that should ring a bell if you were involved in web development during the Clinton administration, RStudio is an R IDE that is actually designed for R from...

It is officially no longer pi day, but I didn’t see this Drew Conway post about estimating pi until just a few minutes ago. Because Google Reader doesn’t show github embeds, I also got to try it without seeing Drew’s … Continue reading →

I was playing around with the Hacker News database Ronnie Roller made (thanks!), so I thought I’d post some of my findings. Activity on the Site My first question was: how has activity on the site increased over time? I … Continue reading →

I describe a kernel density approach to outlier detection on small datasets. In particular, my model is the set of prices for a given item that can be found online. Introduction Suppose you’re searching online for the cheapest place to … Continue reading →

My greatest pleasures in mathematics come from observing--and here, listening to--the interplay of simple and complex. With a few axioms and definitions you can create surprising worlds, and in what seems like a mess you can find beautiful regularities. It's damn sexy, frankly. Here, I use a simple recursive equation to directly generate my sounds

As most readers are probably aware, the free IDE for R, called RStudio, was recently released for general use and it immediately made huge waves within the R community. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. IDEs typically provides a rich set tools developing in some target language. For standard programming languages like C++ (VisualStudio) and Java (Eclipse or NetBeans),...

Two posts ago I mentioned the age-earnings profile but did not provide a regression of log earnings on wage. I also offered, without evidence, that fitting a simple linear regression would be inappropriate. How do I know that? How could … Continue reading →